PENCIL LINES: SPREADING THE WORD!

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Tony White
Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). Tony is currently animation program director and instructor at the inspirational non-profit, AIE-Seattle (www.theaie.us), where he is developing a 2-year program that will enable students to enter the industry without the extreme student loan challenges that are common at other animation schools in the USA. Tony is founder of "Drawassic Age" (www.drawassic.com), a ground-breaking animation studio that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Tony's ultimate dream is to establish a unique atelier-style studio/academy of advanced animation - where his most talented student graduates can gain industry experience through an MFA-level style apprenticeship with master professional animators, on unique, ground-breaking animated films. To help realize this dream, Drawassic Age is currently producing a short 2D animated teaser for its first intended movie production "Bad Penguin". (www.badpenguinmovie.com) Tony's current best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators"; "How To Make Animated Films" and "Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach". His latest (and Tony believes, his best) animation book, "Animator's Notebook", is to be published in October 2011 by Focal Press.
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SPREADING THE WORD!

Angela and I taking a breather from onslaught of visitors at the event!

It was that time again! A time of fantasy and foolishness. A time of mystique and madness, artistry and outrageousness. Yes indeed, it was the enormously popular 'Emerald City Comicon' at the State Convention Center in Seattle!

DigiPen always takes a booth at the event as so many young artists and enthusiasts who come for the comics, the artwork and the dress-ups are also interested in what the school's animation and science programs have to offer. That's why we were there. Head of Admissions, Angela Kugler, was in attendance for the entire weekend (and looking surprisingly fresh and vital despite all that!). I was just there for the Sunday afternoon shift and have to say that I was getting pretty exhausted answering the questions thrown at us by the succession of interested visitors. But I do believe it is time well spent. When everyone hears what the program (the animation program especially - a least from my point of view) they seem intrigued. When they see the student portfolios and the animated work playing on the screen in the background behind us they seem decidedly impressed!

We even had some student alumni from the animation program drop by from time to time as well. It was really nice to see the students we've helped graduate in the past - and to hear them tell us of the work they are now doing in the games industry, or their adventures in working with MoCap (for their sins!) or building models, or texturing environments or even animating cinematics. This somehow makes all the efforts we make seem well worth it.

But all this hard works seems in stark contrast to Leonard Nimmoy who just showed up for a while and charged $60 for an autograph! Give me the challenge of the classroom and the commitment to the animation desk any day. It may not enable me to charge $60 for an autograph personally but it sure makes me feel rich to see the result of our collective labors when we know graduates are finding fulfilling careers in the industry!

Roll on next year! (Maybe I'll even dress-up as 'Spock' next time myself!)

Tony. :^{)}=-